Let's talk nostalgia.
How to know if someone played vanilla!
You can talk about anything in vanilla that the newer players from TBC -> MoP can't know about.

"You played vanilla if..." finish this sentence.

I'll do a few examples:

You played vanilla if you killed Kazzak in Blasted Lands.
You played vanilla if you farmed Tyr's hand in EPL.
You played vanilla if you know what benediction is as a Priest.
... if you can name all priest racials.
... if you know about 21/8/22 as a Rogue.
... if you know this inn music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SImDN0CDXPA (Human inns only).... when warlocks had to farm soulshards before raiding or doing anything really, poor guys. And when a soulshard took a bagslot.
... when hunters needed ammo for their ranged weapons, and the ammo stacked per 200 and took bagslots. And there was different types of ammo's, very strong ammo could be made by engineers.
... when guards gave honor.
... when you got knocked down by the [The Unstoppable Force]
... when Ironforge was the main city where everyone on Alliance hanged out because it was the only city with a Auction House.
... when Innerfire (Priest selfbuff) gave attack power.
... If you knew who Broken Tooth was as a hunter.

Point of this thread? To remember certain things about vanilla WoW that you forgot now that someone else mentions it!

The stuff in bold here... This was still part of TBC. Which is where I started. Hopefully those two points alone will not be enough to identify someone as a vanilla player.

VC for Dead Mines came WAY later, just fyi. And a lot of servers (like mine, for example) weren't even using VC until late BC/early Wrath period. DM was Dead Mines, and DMW/E/N was for Dire Maul. Seems pretty simple, instead of arbitrarily naming an instance based on the initials of the final boss.

Originally Posted by Solia

You know you played Vanilla if you feel like Southshore is the most emptiest place on Earth nowaday.

Considering A)It's not on Earth and B)The Alliance no longer owns it, nor is the zone even relevant anymore, you're right.

I think the single best one has to be the gold lol. Getting the obscene amounts for your epic mount was an achievement in itself. Outside of getting massive guild help for my epic mount, I don't think I ever saw more than 1k in the entirety of Vanilla. BC was a different story, we were ALL suddenly rolling in gold!

You're a Vanilla player if you cried when you replaced your T2/T3 raiding epics with BC greens before you even hit 61 >.>

Originally Posted by Warwithin

Politicians put their hand on the BIBLE and swore to uphold the CONSTITUTION. They did not put their hand on the CONSTITUTION and swear to uphold the BIBLE.

Originally Posted by Adam Jensen

Except maybe Morgan Freeman. That man could convince God to be an atheist with that voice of his . . .

haha, I totally forgot about thottbot, nice and simple layout with no ads (in the beginning anyways), it was great.

Killed almost everything in vanilla, if was great at the time but the only thing memorable (positive anyways, tons of grindy negaitves) was after months and months spending every single copper piece I'd save for a looong ass time and getting on that badass dreadsteed for the first time.

Apply blizzards model to any other subscription service,you'd be outraged:
Netflix adds no new movies for a year, you click a new movie, there's a $5 fee.
You're in an accident, click your onstar button, but there's an addition $20 fee for them to help.
You turn on your tv only to find all you get are the infomercial channels. Every other show is pay per view.
See how dumb that model is?

Drakedog the warlock pvp master
having riding enchant on gloves, mithril spurs on boots, and carrot on a stick for faster moving in PVP
Engineer trinkets that reflect a certain school of magic like frost or fire
using noggenfogger to jump from the giant tree to darkshore
climbing the mountains behind kargath to get underneath stormwind
wall walking

"Let's see. There are monkeys that evolved into men and monkeys that didn't. Just as well, there are men that remained men and men that evolved into something else. Do you really think humans are the ultimate form of evolution? How arrogant."
--Kakurine, Evil Zone for PS1

You played vanilia if you know, Scholo was originally a 10man raid instance.

15 man. Successfully finishing it with only 5 was valuable street cred.

You played vanilla if you remember when tanking actually involved player skill.
You played vanilla if you remember when Sap pulled the Rogue out of stealth and it was a race to pick up the mobs before they splattered the Rogue all over the walls.
You played vanilla if you remember the original Badass Warrior Weapon was Blackhand Doomsaw, not some pussy "arcanite reaper" bullshit.
You played vanilla if you remember a time when you could tell some uppity little Paladin to "shut the fuck up and heal me," and they'd say okay instead of raging about the Blizzard bourgeoisie trying to keep the hard working Ret Paladin down.

I also do landscaping on weekends with some mexican kid that I "hired". He's real good because he's 100% obedient to me and does everything I say while never complaining. He knows that I am the man in the relationship and is completely submissive towards me as he should be.